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#1 2012-10-04 17:48:53

Moosey_Linux
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Problems booting windows whit syslinux

I have bin using syslinux for a couple of months and it works rely well except that it do not support ntfs. But after reading some stuff on internet i got the feeling that it should bee supported in 4.05. So i tried first whit

LABEL Windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd1 1

but it yest sad NTLDR is missing so i read the arch wiki and fond this link:
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ … /chain.c32

then i tried

LABEL Windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd1 1 ntldr=ntldr

now it says:
Loading the boot file...
Faild to load the boot file

So is this all wrong and my window partition is of course located on the second disk on the first partition or have i got it all wrong and ntfs is not yet supported?

Last edited by Moosey_Linux (2012-10-04 21:48:15)

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#2 2012-10-04 17:58:01

Scimmia
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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

Syslinux is certainly able to load Windows from NTFS, I'm doing it now.

What version of Windows are we talking about? Newer versions have a separate boot partition.

Last edited by Scimmia (2012-10-04 18:12:40)

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#3 2012-10-04 18:20:06

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

Please rename the title, because it's very misleading. The current title is actually referring to Syslinux being INSTALLED on an NTFS partition, not chainloading to a Windows install.

And please use [ code ] tags when posting code. It's easier to read this way, and also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code


https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ainloading

LABEL windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd0 3

hd0 3 is the third partition on the first BIOS drive - drives are counted from zero, but partitions are counted from one.

Windows 7 (and 8) by default create a 100 MB "System Reserved" partition (unless you selected an already created partition when installing Windows), and you need to chainload to that one. Finally, check that you actually have a "/boot/syslinux/chain.c32" file, and don't forget to mark this topic as solved (by editing the first post), so that other people (including yourself sometimes) may find useful.


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#4 2012-10-04 19:46:38

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

Sorry for the misguiding title for my defense i´m not from an English speaking country ;-)

I´m running Windows XP for the moment old computer needs old OS. Can it bee that its located on the second disk right now i´m chain loading grub legacy and then i chain load Windows whit it. In my grub/menu.lst I use mapping is there something similar in syslinux?

 grub/menu.lst
# (2) Windows
title Windows strip to the bone
 map (hd0) (hd1)
 map (hd1) (hd0)
 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
 makeactive
 chainloader +1 

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#5 2012-10-04 20:22:01

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

DSpider wrote:

Finally, check that you actually have a "/boot/syslinux/chain.c32"

I have copied it to /boot/syslinux but not symlinkt it.

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#6 2012-10-04 22:29:26

Pres
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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

Does your entire second drive contain the Windows installation (including Windows bootloader written to the MBR)?

If so, you could trying chainloading the second drive and let Windows' bootloader take over:

LABEL Windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd1

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#7 2012-10-05 09:01:46

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

No the first partition contains Windows the second partition is an old arch /boot partition whit grub legacy. Could that bee a problem chain loading Windows from a disk whit grub on it? Any way i tried to boot howl disk yest in case but nothing new.

LABEL Windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd1

NTLDR is missing

LABEL Windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd1 ntldr=ntldr

Loading the boot file...
Faild to load the boot file

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#8 2012-10-05 09:19:44

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

I'm confused. Which bootloader do you have installed? GRUB Legacy or Syslinux? Because there can only be one bootloader installed to the MBR. What does it say when you boot up? Does it say "GRUB Legacy 0.97" ? Then it means that you're not using Syslinux, and you are editing "/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg" for nothing. Reinstall Syslinux with (not "whit") the instructions from the Beginners' Guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Syslinux


Remember, with Syslinux, drives are counted from zero, partitions from one. This is relevant to the BIOS settings, not the kernel names (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc). In my case, I have Windows XP installed on the second drive and on the SECOND partition (meaning /dev/sdb2), and here's the entry from my /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg:

LABEL xp
        MENU LABEL Windows XP
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd0 2

"hd0 2" because it's the second partition. For you, it would be "hd0 1", from what I understand. If you still can't nail it, press Tab when the menu shows up and try "hd1 1" or something like that (maybe even "hd1", which translates as "use whatever bootloader is installed on the second drive's MBR").


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#9 2012-10-05 16:23:25

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

DSpider wrote:

I'm confused. Which bootloader do you have installed? GRUB Legacy or Syslinux?

Yes i know it sounds rely strange but it is not. This computer have been white me for many years and so has Linux and now Arch Linux but one year ago bought a new hard disk. I wanted to try Lucks and dm-crypt for a while and decided to crypt and make a fresh install on my new disk. Everything went well Grub legacy loaded both my old Arch Linux and my XP from my old first disk that now had become my second disk. Then i read about syslinux on Planet Arch i decided to try it. It works really well and is much simpler and less annoying than Grub2 but i couldn’t get it to load windows. I read some more on Planet Arch and found a comment saying that it didn’t yet support ntfs. So i decided to do some kind of workaround and chain loaded white syslinux on my first disk Grub legacy on the second disk then whit it a chain loaded XP.

Maybe the problem is that i have syslinux installed on my first disk and Grub legacy on my second disk. But if that’s the case haw cold tow of Gurb legacy work?

And i try d

LABEL Windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd1 1

NTLDR is missing

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#10 2012-10-05 16:49:47

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

Moosey_Linux wrote:

But if that’s the case haw cold tow of Gurb legacy work?

WTF?

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#11 2012-10-05 18:03:52

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

WonderWoofy wrote:
Moosey_Linux wrote:

But if that’s the case haw cold tow of Gurb legacy work?

WTF?

Not everyone has English as their primary language. What Moosey_Linux means is quite clear from the context. So don't try to be a grammar Nazi !


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#12 2012-10-05 18:54:57

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

Moosey_Linux wrote:

And i try d

LABEL Windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd1 1

NTLDR is missing


Sounds silly as a fix - but do please humour me...

Change the first item to lowercase:

LABEL windows

I spend half a day chasing syslinux "errors" when changing the case of the label was all that was required. Can't find reference to this fact in the wiki but I found the snippet online somewhere...

************** EDIT **********

Your "KERNEL" line should say

COM32 chain.c32

*********** END ********

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#13 2012-10-05 20:06:53

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

satanselbow: It works either way. Either with "KERNEL" or "COM32", and either with "LABEL xp" or "LABEL Xp". I can't find any reference either. Maybe it was fixed in 4.05.


Moosey_Linux: Ok, so /dev/sda has Arch Linux and Syslinux, and Windows is installed on /dev/sdb1. If /dev/sda is set to boot first in the BIOS (which is usually the case), then you need to chainload to "hd1 1" (second drive, first partition).

Post the output of:

# fdisk -l

Last edited by DSpider (2012-10-05 20:07:40)


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#14 2012-10-05 21:07:04

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

DSpider wrote:

Maybe it was fixed in 4.05.

Either that or I have started dreaming in Linux... might have been late 3 series (cough... hide...)

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#15 2012-10-08 13:44:04

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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

Hi guys thanks for all the replays and sorry for my lack of replays this last days butte 6 of October was my birth day so I was far to drunk to type.

This syslinux issue is starting to turn in to a big mystery it seems like the should work white the current configurations and now body knows way it not. Except posting the fdisk -l i think I post the howl /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to make sure noting is wrong whit it.

# Config file for Syslinux -
# /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
#
# Comboot modules:
#   * menu.c32 - provides a text menu
#   * vesamenu.c32 - provides a graphical menu
#   * chain.c32 - chainload MBRs, partition boot sectors, Windows bootloaders
#   * hdt.c32 - hardware detection tool
#   * reboot.c32 - reboots the system
#   * poweroff.com - shutdown the system
#
# To Use: Copy the respective files from /usr/lib/syslinux to /boot/syslinux.
# If /usr and /boot are on the same file system, symlink the files instead
# of copying them.
#
# If you do not use a menu, a 'boot:' prompt will be shown and the system
# will boot automatically after 5 seconds.
#
# Please review the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux
# The wiki provides further configuration examples

#DEFAULT arch
#PROMPT 0        # Set to 1 if you always want to display the boot: prompt 
#TIMEOUT 50
# You can create syslinux keymaps with the keytab-lilo tool
#KBDMAP de.ktl

# Menu Configuration
# Either menu.c32 or vesamenu32.c32 must be copied to /boot/syslinux 
#UI menu.c32
#UI vesamenu.c32

# Refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux

UI vesamenu.c32
DEFAULT arch
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE Boot Menu
MENU BACKGROUND resistance-1280x1024.png
TIMEOUT 1200

MENU WIDTH 78
MENU MARGIN 4
MENU ROWS 5
MENU VSHIFT 10
MENU TIMEOUTROW 13
MENU TABMSGROW 11
MENU CMDLINEROW 11
MENU HELPMSGROW 16
MENU HELPMSGENDROW 29

# Refer to http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Comboot/menu.c32

# Refer to http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu
MENU TITLE Arch Linux
#MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
MENU COLOR border       30;44   #40ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR title        1;36;44 #9033ccff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR sel          7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
MENU COLOR unsel        37;44   #50ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR help         37;40   #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout_msg  37;40   #80ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout      1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR msg07        37;40   #90ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR tabmsg       31;40   #30ffffff #00000000 std

MENU RESOLUTION 1280 1024

# boot sections follow
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*


LABEL arch
	MENU LABEL Arch Linux
	LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
	APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/cdb6e767-33d1-4b24-a631-5967027a37a9 cryptdevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9acb107e-2639-4b40-bf42-ed494979009f:root ro vga=773
	INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL archfallback
	MENU LABEL Arch Linux Fallback
	LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
	APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/cdb6e767-33d1-4b24-a631-5967027a37a9 cryptdevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9acb107e-2639-4b40-bf42-ed494979009f:root
	INITRD ../initramfs-linux-fallback.img

LABEL GRUB Leagacy
        MENU LABEL GRUB Leagacy
        COM32 chain.c32
	#map (hd0) (hd1)
 	#map (hd1) (hd0
        APPEND hd1 2

LABEL Windows
	MENU LABEL Windows
	KERNEL chain.c32
	APPEND hd1 1

LABEL hdt
        MENU LABEL HDT (Hardware Detection Tool)
        COM32 hdt.c32

LABEL memtest
        MENU LABEL Memtest86+
        LINUX ../memtest86+/memtest.bin
 
LABEL reboot
        MENU LABEL Reboot
        COM32 reboot.c32
 
LABEL off
        MENU LABEL Power Off
        COMBOOT poweroff.com

and in my /boot/syslinux/ directory following files and directory’s are located

[storken@Cikoniedoj ~]$ sudo /boot/syslinux/
Earth-Wallpaper-1280-1024.png  pci.ids
SYSLINUX_AUTOUPDATE            poweroff.com
chain.c32                      reboot.c32
hdt.c32                        resistance-1280x1024.png
ldlinux.sys                    syslinux.cfg
menu.c32                       vesamenu.c32

and then the fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8ab3f65

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63    40965749    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2        40965750    80035829    19535040   83  Linux
/dev/sda3   *    80035830    80276804      120487+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4        80276805   976773167   448248181+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5        80276868   138865859    29294496   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       138865923   144729584     2931831   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       144729648   976773167   416021760   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x53d653d6

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          63    40965749    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2        40965750    41945714      489982+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb3        41945715    98590904    28322595    f  W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb4        98590905   312576704   106992900    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb5        41945778    45849509     1951866   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6        45849573    75152069    14651248+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb7        75152133    84919589     4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb8        84919653    98590904     6835626   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes, 490234752 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f3104

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1              63   490234751   245117344+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/mapper/root: 30.0 GB, 29995466752 bytes, 58584896 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/XL: 426.0 GB, 426004185088 bytes, 832039424 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/BIG: 251.0 GB, 250998063616 bytes, 490230593 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/SWAP: 3000 MB, 3000097792 bytes, 5859566 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/VolBIG-lvolBlack: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/VolBIG-lvolWhite: 229.5 GB, 229520703488 bytes, 448282624 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

As you can see i have three ntfs partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb4. When i installed arch again i also installed windows again butte something happen d to it so it stopt working after only 4 boots so i stayed white my old install on /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb4 is an ntfs storing partition for my windows.

Thanks again for all your effort to help it wood bee really nice to find the root to this mystical problem.

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#16 2012-10-08 14:28:50

Moosey_Linux
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Re: Problems booting windows whit syslinux

satanselbow wrote:

Sounds silly as a fix - but do please humour me...

It works weary well butte its super retarded and that’s way i wane fix it smile

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